Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death at a Storm-ravaged Hospital
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781782393740 (1782393749)
Publish date: February 6th 2014
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
It was hard to put down this impressive work of journalism that focuses on events at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina. As hurricane season approaches it begs the question: are we better prepared to deal with natural disasters in the U.S.? The epilogue to t...
"Someday," the letter writer warned, "the truth will be told".--anonymous writer, in response to an essay for Modern Healthcare written by Touro Infirmary CEO, Les Hirsch. The writer called out Hirsch, who was explaining away actions taken by hospital staff during Hurricane Katrina. The anonymous...
The first five days of Hurricane Katrina for the doctors, patients, and non-patients at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans. Wow! This is a well-written, well-documented look at what happened at the hospital and the aftermath of those decisions and actions. It reads like a novel. I was pulled in from t...
This gets such a high review on Goodreads and Amazon that I have been wanting to read it for awhile. Based on Hurricane Katrina's effects on "Memorial", I was looking forward to a story that I didn't realize was more of an essay, based on author interviews. Purely my mistake, so I continued. But it'...
Most of the time, doctors get it right. But on certain occasions, they make bad decisions, and this is a book about a terrible crisis in a hospital that brought on some very bad decision making. Five Days at Memorial tells a heart-wrenching story, made even more poignant because it is all true. I fi...
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